February 23, 2005
Spring
Flower Show: "Time for Reflection"
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Spring
Flower Show at Botanic Garden |
The annual Spring Flower Show at Mount Holyoke College Botanic
Garden will begin Saturday, March 5, and run through Sunday,
March 20, in the Talcott Greenhouse.
This horticultural event
will showcase hundreds of spring-blossoming bulbs and plants,
which will be displayed in the main Show House.
This year’s
theme is “Time for Reflection.” The show will feature
a reflecting pool of bluestone, as well as other elements of
a formal garden. Attendees can expect to see fragrant favorites
such as hyacinths, narcissus, pansies, freesia, primroses, and
canary broom, as well as tulips, anemones, ranunculus, crocus,
scilla, muscari, cineraria, and calceolaria, or pocketbook plant.
The show will run daily from 10 am to 4 pm. The greenhouse
is wheelchair accessible, and the show is free and open to
the public. Groups are welcome with advance
notice. For more information or directions, please call x2116 or visit www.mtholyoke.edu/go/botanic.
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